Deepwater Horizon — Transition Voice

Inside America’s worst toxic waste cover-up

By Valerie Schloredt May 29, 2012

Film Review: The Big Fix exposes BP's efforts to minimize awareness of North America's biggest oil spill. In the weeks after the Deepwater Horizon platform exploded and oil began pouring into the Gulf of Mexico, filmmaker Josh Tickell was in touch with folks back home in Louisiana. The stories they told about the spill were very different from what he was hearing in the mainstream media. So Josh and his wife Rebecca hired a film crew and drove south to find out for themselves what was going … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Films, Reviews Tagged With: Deepwater Horizon, energy policy, environmental regulations, Gulf of Mexico, peak oil

Deepwater what?

By Erik Curren April 20, 2012

How soon we forget. Today marks the second anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But don't expect to hear much about it. The largest environmental disaster ever in American history, the BP oil spill dumped nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and its consequences continue to reverberate in the area. But unless you're a Louisiana shrimper or a fan of dolphins -- more than 700 have washed up on Gulf shores since the spill -- does it really … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: Big Oil, BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, oil spill

Is Nature trying to tell us something?

By Jeff Rubin April 1, 2011

Was it not just last summer that British Petroleum’s (BP) engineers were working desperately around the clock to find a way to plug a three month leak from the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig that spilled 205 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico? Now, engineers and plant operators are braving potentially lethal radiation to avert a catastrophe in the crippled Fukushima nuclear power station in Japan. There are many disturbingly parallels between the two events. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: Deepwater Horizon, Japan crisis, nuclear power

Urge Obama to say “peak oil” on April 20

By Erik Curren February 17, 2011

We all know that oil is the lifeblood of the world economy. But after last year's International Energy Agency report confirming that the world had passed the peak of conventional oil production in 2006, it's clearer than ever that peak oil is real, peak oil is here and peak oil poses a challenge to our whole way of life. And as the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill approaches on April 20, America's biggest ever environmental disaster makes clear that from now on, oil will … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: activism, ASPO, Barack Obama, BP, Deepwater Horizon, energy policy

Readers and authors talk

Elisabeth J. Potts on Climate collision course: CO2 levels about to hit 400 ppm » As of this week, we have already reached the 400ppm milestone. Here's the thing: We all need some sp...
Ed Johnson on Roundup of distressing climate news » Thank you all for your comments and commitments. I too sense this with out all the research backgrou...
Lee Samelson on The climate change mountaintop » It seems like the stages occur in reverse order for climate hawks Climate hawks or climate activists...
Steve on For sale, habitable planet, too late » Doug, I am in a similar place to you, I think. I have probably never really faced up to the reality ...